Dinner Table Quotes - Page 3

• Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

  Joan Didion

  Talking, People, Twelve

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• My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

  Renee Fleming

  Night, Parent, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  Sweat, People, Sitting Down

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Play, Piano

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• ...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Christian, Thinking, Judging

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• What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.

  Charles Baxter

  Girl, Queens, Mistake

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

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• The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

  Nolan Bushnell

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  "The Player" by Ethan Watters, www.wired.com. January 10, 2005.

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• My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Reading, Tables

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.291, Macmillan

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• I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

  George Michael

  Confidence, Song, Views

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• Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Prayer, Home, Sunday

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• I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Hot, May

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• I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Eight, People

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• Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.

  Ian Bogost

  Morning, Husband, Light

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• I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

  Rachel Gibson

  Morning, Couple, Night

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• HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary. He longs to be WORSHIPED when we sit at the dinner table and not just when we come to His communion table. You may go days without THINKING of Him, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of YOU.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking Of You, Morning, Sunday

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."

  John Green

  Children, Dad, Father

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• What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

  P. W. Singer

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

  Ernest Gallo

  Brother, Wine, California

  "American wine giant Ernest Gallo dies", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Dessert First, Order, Guy

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• The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Exercise, People

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• People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Bored, People, Personality

  Claude C. Hopkins (2010). “Scientific Advertising”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

  Sara Blakely

  Motivational, Brother, Children

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• Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

  Mira Grant

  Walking Dead, Tables, Dinner

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

  Bo Sanchez

  Parent, Tables, Dinner

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